The Labor enquirer., 1887-04-23

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seody iolnsd dub, NOT Of cots and gam
Nm, bst Of people Who are opposed 70
KHgSing end. sollaring human beings.
Il Il named The Toilsrs' League, and vs
are hoping and trying 70 establish branch
= In IN parts Of The civilized world. Our
general secretary is New Yorker; our
corresponding secretary is an Englishman
(to-wit, Jack Armstrong, pro ten'); our a.
nanciai secretary is Canadian; our treas
urer, Bavasian; our trustee, Norwegi-
an; one Of our auditors Is q Californian,
and tho other 10 an Irishman. The chair
man is elected at every meeting, for that
meeting only. Tho object Of the league
is-as stated In the documents-''To do
all the good ve can, BY associative action"
reckon that object is as broad as the
universe and a. high as the heavens.
Membership the league, mean, not
the heavens men and "a women.
(And want TO tell you his,--that the
women are now our usefulest members,
and that consider no association Will
ever accomplish any great good without
their aid.
Perhaps you remember that ! said |
was not deaf, dumb nor blind, and there
fore not married; and perhaps that rather
offended some Of you. But as In many
other things say, meant more than ap-
peared ON the surface: and warn you,
therefore not to swallow all my sayings
without first chewing them. Had lived
In the Society Islands, with the simple,
honest, healthy, strong and happy descend
ants of tho mutineers Of the bounty, l
would gladly have married; but / have not
been 80 senseless and cruel as to induce
any woman TO enter into lifelong bon
dape TO me under the conditions have
lived In. How could always rambler,
and ofttimes a tramp-honestly ask any
women TO become my partnerf
But even tramp has affections. He
may wear a rough-looking husk, but he
has a heart-as other men have-and his
blood circulates through his veins, and his
pulse beats, and his heart can ache, and
his temples can ,throb as though he were
broadcioth-husked parson, or a million
aire. 1T occurs to me, just now, to ask
you II you ever heard or read OF rich
person executing any great work, as
poet, painter, sculptor, or social reformer
And I ask, also, II. 1t is not true, that the
moment a rich man becomes wise, his
arst aim 10 TO 'divest himself Of his riches y
blending molsssses is really not, for me
a pleasant subject to write about, but
suppose you want me to tell you how
get along with that work. Most of you
I am sure, don't care for my moralizing
but want me TO relate adventures. 'Yor
shail have a little Of all sorts of writing
if,I live long enough, but warn you that
/ hall continue writing in my own zigzae
way.
Ny foreman had talk with mo yester
day, at noontimo. He asked II ! was
member OF the X. Of l.. aaid, "Yes, m!
lord,r and he replied that he was sorry t'
hoar II. Then said was sorry 10 hear
that, and hoped he would get rid Of hi
prejudice.
"Dafhn EN-" saih he, "they don't know
what they want"
"some Of EN- do" said l. They wan
all persons to receive the full value Of
heir labor"
"Thcn what would become Of the prof
ltsi" asked the foreman.
profits exacted from other people
labor mean slavery" replied.
That's all damned rot. II there we're M
profits no capitalist would invest hi
money in business, and what would be
come OF the laborers thens" the foreman
inquired.
"And what would become Of the capital
ists, rs you call thems" rctorted. "Lool
here" | said; shakespeare calls money
barren metal, that cannot breed. Thcr'
Is no possible way Of multiplying dollars
or making money, except at the mint o.
the printing Office. One hen may produc'
n dozen or hundred other hens, but n'
dollar ever produced another dollar, o
evcn the tenth part of cent"
"what are you driving at anyhow
asked the foreman. irritably.
This" l replied; "the incomes Of tn
capitalists are not got from the increas'
Of money, but the increase Of goods, an'
that Increase is caused only be labor
Capi.si witch Is mo- money but She use
ful residue Ct N, products Of past labor
IA OF great lssis,tnce 20 tho producers
and, thsreforo, 10 ccpiial, not TO money
acme portion II the produce is due. Blu
the moncyed.men take about one-half o
b all .he annual produce Of labor, as cnarg'
for ,he cse OF thcir barren dollars, an'
only one half is lef, as a reeompense TO
labor, past and present"
.you shoull hire a nail OF write book
said Bradshaw, the foreman. II am no
sure quite understand what you mean
and I guess you don't quite understand
yourself, either. I am quite sure that mos
Of the labor papers I've read make no dis
tinctions between money-owning and cap
ital-owning. But you had better go ant
soc that the stuff Is all right, = and the'
We will 90 and have a drink Of beer"
And u came TO pass that We did so; an